New York sex worker Angelina Barini sentenced to 30 years for fatally drugging 4 men

The pattern was almost equivalent.

Between July and August 2019, sex worker Angelina Barini met with her shoppers at motels in New York City before giving them harmful doses of drugs that incapacitated them. Then, she would rob the men and go away with their private belongings.

Four of them, including a prominent Italian chef, died of overdoses from the medication, court docket information state.

In August, Barini pleaded responsible to distributing drugs that killed her shoppers, together with fentanyl and gamma-butyrolactone, identified for causing irrational conduct, severe illness, coma and demise.

Final week, a judge sentenced the 43-year-old Barini to 30 years in jail.

“The defendant drugged and killed a number of folks for a few fast dollars,” Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, stated in a news launch. “She stole their private belongings while they lay unconscious dying from the deadly drugs she gave them.”

Attorneys representing Barini did not respond to a message from The Washington Put up.

Barini met her first sufferer at a motel in Astoria, Queens, on July 4, 2019. There, she gave the man fentanyl-laced medicine and left the room. Police found him useless hours later, court docket information state.

Per week later, on July 11, Barini had an encounter with another man at a motel in Woodside, Queens, where she gave him fentanyl-laced drugs. The person additionally died of a drug overdose, a complaint states.

The next month, on Aug. 5, Barini met her third sufferer in Faculty Level, Queens, and once more gave him fentanyl-laced medication that led to a fatal overdose, prosecutors said.

Later that month, on Aug. 18, Barini met her final recognized sufferer, Andrea Zamperoni — a chef for the high-end restaurant chain Cipriani — inside an Elmhurst, Queens, motel room, the place she drugged him with gamma-butyrolactone, generally often called a “date rape” drug. The person died shortly afterward.

That day, court docket records state, Barini repeatedly tried to dispose of the victim’s physique. Barini wrapped Zamperoni’s physique in bleach-stained sheets and placed it inside a trash bin, in keeping with prosecutors. Zamperoni was reported lacking on Aug. 21, prosecutors stated. That very same day, the New York City Police Division discovered the person’s body in the motel room.

According to courtroom data, when authorities knocked on the room’s door, Barini opened and swiftly shut it. Once investigators made it into the room, they noticed a powerful odor — that of a decomposing body and burning incense, the grievance states.

Barini told investigators that “she did not do it,” but additionally that her “pimp” made her do it. Contained in the motel room, authorities found several gadgets, together with a bank card belonging to Zamperoni and a glass pipe used to smoke drugs, court docket data state.

When authorities later interrogated her, Barini stated Zamperoni had agreed to pay her for sex. When she awoke, Barini stated, he was unresponsive and bleeding from the nostril and mouth. Her pimp, she added, wouldn't let her call the police.

Fernando Dallorso, the general manager of Cipriani in New York, advised the New York Instances that Zamperoni was a “devoted laborious worker” who cooked six days a week and “by no means missed a day of labor.”

The kitchen staff mourned the loss, Dallorso instructed the Occasions.

“Everyone in the kitchen proper now's heartbroken, from the dishwasher to the chef,” Dallorso stated.